Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.

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Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA Rachel Clements, University of Manchester, UK Michael Cordner, University of York, UK Tom Cornford, University of York, UK. Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol, UK Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA Beth A. Kattelman, Ohio State University, USA Joseph Yale University, USA Paul D. Streufert University of Texas at Tyler, USA Nathalie Wolfram University of Montana, USA

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Introduction: Theatre and Spectrality; Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin PART I: GHOSTS, STAGE ADAPTATION AND TECHNOLOGY 1. 'Charles Dickens and the Invention of the Modern Stage Ghost'; Marvin Carlson 2. 'Gothic Adaptation and the Stage Ghost'; Nathalie Wolfram PART II: SPECTRAL ECONOMIES 3. 'Apprehending the Spectral: Hauntology and Precarity in Caryl Churchill's Plays'; Rachel Clements 4. 'Heritage, Capital and Culture: The Ghost of 'Sarah' at the Bristol Old Vic'; Catherine Hindson 5. 'Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?: American Ghost Shows of the Twentieth Century'; Beth A. Kattelman PART III: MODERNITY, GENDER AND GHOST AESTHETICS 6. 'Masculinity, Haunting and Twentieth-Century American Realism'; Paul D. Streufert 7. ''Pretty Ghost, a Duet': On Dying While You Still Look Good'; Joseph Roach PART IV: ACTING, ABSENCE AND REMATERIALIZATION 8. 'A Restoration Vanishing Act: The Case of Thomas Betterton's Groin'; Michael Cordner 9. 'Giving Up the Ghost: The Actor's Body as HauntedHouse'; Mary Luckhurst 10. 'Michael Chekhov: The Spiritual Realm and the Invisible Body'; Tom Cornford 11. 'Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear Meets Alice'; Peter Holland Select Bibliography Index